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ok getting sentimental now. here's one of my all time favorite bands from some of the best years i wish i could remember. one of UK's finest: we played a lot of wishbone ash in the band i was in in the early to mid 70's.

I recently inherited my Grandma's "sock darner". I know how to use it and I do. Maybe next time someone with a tiny eco friendly car gets all smug and self rightious on me I'll ask them when was the last time you repaired your socks instead of throwing them in the landfill?

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OOOH, little blue engine... Is that a wooden mushroom shaped object? My gran had one, i remember playing with it when I was a kid!!

My Grandma's looks a little more like a small bowling pin but I can imagine the advantages to a mushroom shape. I used to play with it too and she showed me how to use it and years later she got a laugh when I told her that nobody in my high school English class knew what darning a sock was. A charachter in one of our books was darning a sock and the teacher asked if anyone knew what that meant. I got the sudden uneasy feeling I was being stared at and realized I was the only one whio raised their hand so I had to explain to the whole class how you darn a sock. Then the teacher said nowdays we just say "darn sock" and throw it away.

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Rostosky
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Yes! i do know the shape you are talking about, just realised my gran had two, one like a mushroom and the other longer. I think she used the mushroom shaped one for heels of the socks and the other one for nearer the toes!!

I darn everything, my jeans, my jumpers, my socks, and my leather jacket!! i would also darn my para boots, but they are too tough!! I have to be content with forever glue ing the soles back on.

I cant imagine what sort of muppetts keep giving money to niki and other labels? and then complain they are broke!!!

To me, clothes are rags to keep you warm in winter, they can be got from the charity shops for a couple of quid, leaving good money for food and fun!!!

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Rise like lions after slumber,in unvanquishable number. Shake your chains to earth like dewwhich in sleep has fallen on you. Ye are many,they are few. Shelley

Charity shops, thrift shops, yard sales the clearance rack and occasionally the side of the road if traffic permits...all wonderful places to shop! Name brands are great if someone else pays the name brand price before you buy it at the Goodwill store. When you're not picky about "pre-ownership" of things you can have much nicer stuff than if you pay for it new. When you can make it last practically forever by fixing instead of tossing it almost turns into a game. Just how long can we make Hubby's station wagon last? We're at 27 years and counting. I drive the new car, its only 16 years old

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Rostosky
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A a fellow skip hunter I suspect!! me and mRs R have oft been spotted "rescuing and recycling" from the skips that appear at random for folk to dispose of their unwanted but totally good stuff!

In fact we have taken it one step further, when i cut myself mechanicing, mrs R often superglues me back together again, I mean we would have to travel 30 miles round trip to the nearest A and E.( we live in the sticks)

Once, I was in a rush, and didnt notice the bedroom door was actualy open and I run into the edge of it.this split my forehead open, in the spirit of mend and repair, I got mRs R to thread some fishing line cat gut, and she put three stitches in my forehead.This saved us about a tenner in fuel, a three to four hour wait for a nurse to do exactly the same, and Mrs R did it so much neater, being a demon with the needle and thread.

a week later we snipped them, pulled them out, and I was as good as new again, apart from a small amount of extra common sense that the door had knocked into me.

oh, I will take a video of what the supermarket built to keep a group of us out of their skips, you wont believe the trouble they went to, it must have cost them thousands.

they would rather throw, joints of beef weighing up to four kilos away, just because they are out of date tommorrow, than sell them a couple of quid cheaper....This is disgusting, bread, cakes, cheese, everything they sell they chuck out by the TON, before it is out of date. Half the world starves and they do this.

BUT, the 15ft high razor topped fence they built has a weak spot and we have spotted it, And they are off gaurd, having forgotten about us for a while now..........

I will get a video...

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Rostosky
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Good morning PPP, I like John cage, he was the father of avant garde!!that was exactly the same program as a very young John cale (Velvet underground) was on : Ive got a secret. Both Johns knew each other and did things together.

John Cale was the guest on this September 16, 1963 episode of I've Got a Secret. His secret centered around his participation in an 18 hour 40 minute piano performance, the first full length presentation of Erik Satie's "Vexations" held at the Pocket Theater. (Not mentioned, pianists John Cage, David Tudor, Christian Wolff, Philip Corner, Viola Farber, Robert Wood, MacRae Cook, David Del Tredici, James Tenney, Howard Klein (the New York Times reviewer), Joshua Rifkin, with two reserves, and with Cale all took turns playing the piece that is three lines long, the required 840 times on September 9, 1963, from 6 p.m. to 12:40 p.m. the following day. John Cage was the fifth of the many pianists who followed after John Cale who was, of course, the fourth. More importantly, Cage arranged for the entire performance having been introduced to this music while in Paris in 1949. A page of sheet music of the piece was lent to him by Henri Sauguet, and Cage kept a photostat of it with him then, finally performing it 14 years later. I read of this in David Revill's book "The Roaring Silence.") Seated also on the I've Got a Secret stage was Off Broadway actor, Karl Schenzer, who's secret was that he was the only person to stay for the entire piano concert.

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Rise like lions after slumber,in unvanquishable number. Shake your chains to earth like dewwhich in sleep has fallen on you. Ye are many,they are few. Shelley

His secret centered around his participation in an 18 hour 40 minute piano performance, the first full length presentation of Erik Satie's "Vexations" held at the Pocket Theater. (Not mentioned, pianists John Cage, David Tudor, Christian Wolff, Philip Corner, Viola Farber, Robert Wood, MacRae Cook, David Del Tredici, James Tenney, Howard Klein (the New York Times reviewer), Joshua Rifkin, with two reserves, and with Cale all took turns playing the piece that is three lines long, the required 840 times

He used to open his live set with this. Very spooky in a big dark room, with gigantic bass bins. 100 people swaying in the darkness in the crypt of a church in Brixton. (You don't get the fab bass effect on a 'puter.)

Rostosky
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The USA "inteligence" service.well, just to start off on this amazing story, little bit of history, It was SOE, who during WW11 went and helped the USA start an inteligence service, as apparently it didnt have one.

We should obviously have done some follow up training.

Two kids last week, went over to the USA from the UK.They tweeted their friends saying "we are going to destroy the USA" what this means in kidspeak is the new equivelent to " we are going to get real wasted" or "we are going to get destroyed"

Taken to the next level of stupid language use "we are going to destroy the place we are partying at"

Just kids speak. This lad and girl would have difficulty destroying their own hairstyle, but nevermind.

They also tweeted ( for a joke) we are going to dig marilyn monroe up.

When they got to the good old usa, they were immediately handcuffed, and detained.

Anyone with an ounce of common sense wouold have cast their eyes on these kids and just thought "harmless dicks" But not the inteligence service, they interrogated them for five hours, AND searched them for shovels, looking through all their baggage.

Okay, maybe these two kids could just, just feasably have been a threat to homeland security, possibly.

BUT, anyone with an microgram of inteligence would know that a shovel would NOT help you dig marylin monroe up....

WHY? BECAUSE SHE AINT BURIED!!!

she resides in what we call a "wall crypt" a sort of stone box, about three feet high in the air.

The implements of exhumation that would serve you best in this situation would be a Hammer and a chisel, and possibly a crowbar.

Anyways, they got sent back to the UK.For nothing, except stupid tweeting.How weird is that?

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Rise like lions after slumber,in unvanquishable number. Shake your chains to earth like dewwhich in sleep has fallen on you. Ye are many,they are few. Shelley

The USA "inteligence" service.well, just to start off on this amazing story, little bit of history, It was SOE, who during WW11 went and helped the USA start an inteligence service, as apparently it didnt have one.

We should obviously have done some follow up training.

Two kids last week, went over to the USA from the UK.They tweeted their friends saying "we are going to destroy the USA" what this means in kidspeak is the new equivelent to " we are going to get real wasted" or "we are going to get destroyed"

Taken to the next level of stupid language use "we are going to destroy the place we are partying at"

Just kids speak. This lad and girl would have difficulty destroying their own hairstyle, but nevermind.

They also tweeted ( for a joke) we are going to dig marilyn monroe up.

When they got to the good old usa, they were immediately handcuffed, and detained.

Anyone with an ounce of common sense wouold have cast their eyes on these kids and just thought "harmless dicks" But not the inteligence service, they interrogated them for five hours, AND searched them for shovels, looking through all their baggage.

Okay, maybe these two kids could just, just feasably have been a threat to homeland security, possibly.

BUT, anyone with an microgram of inteligence would know that a shovel would NOT help you dig marylin monroe up....

WHY? BECAUSE SHE AINT BURIED!!!

she resides in what we call a "wall crypt" a sort of stone box, about three feet high in the air.

The implements of exhumation that would serve you best in this situation would be a Hammer and a chisel, and possibly a crowbar.

Anyways, they got sent back to the UK.For nothing, except stupid tweeting.How weird is that?

rossy, it's a sad statement of the "world we live in" over here - compliments of 9-11.You'll love this (off topic a bit): my friend's kid got suspended from a school a few years back for bringing a squirt gun (water gun) to the school parking lot.I tell my kid "don't even THINK the word GUN when you're at school"

My telephone tells me that I have been on the phone to different numbers at Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs for over 27 hours over the last two weeks, on behalf of my 75-yr-old mum. Today - when she tried calling them from abroad, at my gran's bedside, different special numbers for abroad which are supposed not to have a half-hour wait on hold - they are all apparently on strike and they put down the phones. I tried the same numbers myself and confirmed that is the case. Sigh.

Well I've done what I can over the last few months. But it's a real nightmare dealing with these people.

Good morning ladies and gents! Just catching up on post readings while I pry my poor little eyelids open. Have LOTS of piano practicing to do.

Rossy: the US Intelligence agency puts out whoppers often. We get a good laugh from them on a regular basis. You should look up the US navy vs. Canadian Lighthouse. You'll have a hard time breathing from laughter over that one!